Delphi2Cpp: Enumerated types, conversion from Delphi to C++

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Enumerated types

The explicit definition of enumeration types is easy to translate.

Day = (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun);
->
enum Day {Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun };

However, an implicit definition is also possible in object Pascal within a variable declaration. It is decomposed for C++ into an explicit type definition and the real declaration of the variable. The name of the type is derived from the name of the unit by appending two underscores and a counter.

Day : (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun);
->
enum test__0 {Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun };
test__0 Day;